Sunday, November 18, 2012

Weekly Scrum readings follow up - CW46/2012

Background

See this kind of post as an experiment, how to best spread my favorite readings of Scrum related input and gain possible input for additional valuable sources from the agile community - meaning YOU. Along with this I'd like to avoid spamming - therefore let's start with summarizing it weekly and having only the top 5 readings listed.

Scrum Metrics

A description of 10 metrics used for Scrum to measure the teams increasing productivity (recommended right from the beginning of using Scrum).

In my opinion it's really important to support your agile journey by backing it with facts instead of relying on gut feelings (I missed this point in the past and in a later post I'd like to describe the problems with NOT having measurements).

6 rules for awards - Kudo cards

Jurgen Appelo describes in his post 6 rules for awards and presents the nice idea of introducing the Kudo box - an implementation for having awards with the 6 rules applied.Idea is to enable everyone to reward someone's contribution using a small reward (that is paid by the company ;-) ). The rewards are dropped in the Kudo box using fancy Kudo cards. Once a week (or day, or whatever schedule makes sense for you) the content of the box is published and rewards are given...

Recent posts

“Scrum is a framework based on enforcement of simple constraints that will cause an average team to self organize into a Hyperproductive state”- Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Metrics for Hyperproductive Teams